@FroodyFrog I completely agree! Normally I would be smashing one of these other buttons, but the last few years I actively avoid the christmas music. Only time I hear it is in the bathroom at work on the local radio station (radio in place to stop the "big wigs" from being on conference calls while doing the biz). And I do most all shopping online now, like most of the smart shoppers...
@thismyusername yeah, not my playlist. Besides, after possibly excessive downvoting, my playlist has reached an irreversible selection bias for Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Not an enjoyable thing by my taste.
@PocketBrain A lot of people conflate TSO and Mannheim Steamroller, but they don't sound at all similar to me. Both focus on updated takes on classical Christmas music, but whereas TSO has a hard-rock sound with orchestral acompanyment (with its roots being the metal band Savatage), Mannheim Steamroller sounds more like one guy with a synthesizer (even when they do have a small orchestra).
While TSO's radio airplay is mostly instrumentals, the band has multiple lead vocalists and their (awesome) live show features more songs with singing than not. MS has no vocalists at all in the band, though they occasionally employee a guest singer like Johnny Mathis or Olivia Newton-John.
You must be younger... when that stuff came out in the 80s you couldn't escape it, anywhere. And I'm still a little tired of it even though I don't hear it nearly as often anymore.
Not bad stuff, just never really need to hear their "Deck the Halls" ever again.
@tsfisch Yep, my mom would play that one Mannheim Steamroller album every year for the entire month. For yeaaaaaaars. My sister mentioned it the other day and "Deck the Halls" has been in my head all week now. Ba da da Ba da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
When "Feliz Navidad" came out one of the stations played it incessantly for weeks then did it again the next Christmas, along with KVVU InstantNews which was the only TV station on the air at 5:00AM Christmas morning when all three of us kids bailed out of bed; that had the same effect as being given bologna sandwiches every day for months; I can't stand either to this day.
TSO, great. Mannheim Steamroller, awesome. The King Singers, wonderful. Winter on the Moors is memorable. Diana Krall, ahhh! Mitch Miller Holiday Sing Along was what we grew up with - the entire extended family, usually on Christmas Eve, singing along... I miss that more than I can say with us all so far apart now. Enya doing Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night)... The Piano Guys, and so many others.
Its not hard to ignore the inevitable crappy ones with so much wonderful music out there.
I usta work in a dept store, and there is this vibes and muted trumpet version of let it snow that is an earworm that pops up about this time every year.
I've pretty much managed to avoid the Christmas music this year, except for the bagpiper down the street waking me up on the weekends. At least, I think it's Christmas music.
Also, I caught a good chunk of this last Sunday. So, that was something.
As a former (radio) disc-jockey in the 80's, I vote for Matt Monroe and "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year."
Heard it WAAAAY to many times (along with non-Christmas song "My Baby Takes The Morning Train.")
I do not listen to "new" auto-tuned prefabricated pop-star renditions of most holiday music. I like Casting Crown's version of "I heard The Bells On Christmas Day" and I kind of like Annie Lennox's Christmas CD. However it has been described as "one of the most angry sounding Christmas albums" of all time. Watch the official version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" on Youtube (). This was pieced together from some very scant material and has a weird feeling about it!
For at least two of these, I have ways of making them tolerable. For "Wonderful Christmastime", I mentally substitute this song For "Christmas Shoes", I mentally substitute this one
There is only one Christmas song I've heard that doesn't drive me crazy and make me want to harm things. Ironically it's a Christmas song about going crazy and harming things...
@dashcloud At least for me, it isn't a question of not loathing "Christmas Shoes" (I definitely do), but I am not sick of it because I haven't heard it a single time this year. As a matter of fact, it has probably been close to 10 years since I have heard it. I guess I have been extremely lucky to have just been exposed to radio stations and canned music services (e.g. Muzak) that recognize how hated it is. (I know I have just doomed myself to hearing it a half dozen times of the next few days)
@The_Baron Lmao. My half-asleep kitties bolted upright all bug-eyed and spent the whole song trying to figure out where the new one was. Including checking every window. They are still confused
I put together playlists on USBs and play only that. Nothing else is safe. Oh wait, the entire Beatles music catalog is now streaming. That's acceptable.
None, because I don't listen to any.
@FroodyFrog I completely agree! Normally I would be smashing one of these other buttons, but the last few years I actively avoid the christmas music. Only time I hear it is in the bathroom at work on the local radio station (radio in place to stop the "big wigs" from being on conference calls while doing the biz). And I do most all shopping online now, like most of the smart shoppers...
Wham.
@%#ing Wham, every third song on Pandora.
End the insanity.
@gabemyers you do know Pandora uses algorithms to tailor the music to YOUR tastes right?
(hint click the down thumb when you hear a song you hate)
@thismyusername yeah, not my playlist. Besides, after possibly excessive downvoting, my playlist has reached an irreversible selection bias for Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Not an enjoyable thing by my taste.
@gabemyers when its corrupted to only like RHCP it's time to make a new account, and be more careful with your thumbs this time :)
"Last Christmas." I hate these "Christmas" songs that are really just breakup songs that take place during Christmas.
@darksaber99999 Agreed. "Wonderful Christmastime" gets tons of hate, but it really is one of the few "pop" Christmas songs that is festive.
Santa baby can eat a bag of dicks
@tonylegrone YES YES, this one. Hate it.
I'll never get bored of TSO. The proggy, wanky instrumentals are my crack. Kinda like Dream Theater in some ways.
@Fej If you haven't, go see them in concert. They put on a hell of a show.
TSO anything. Too Disney.
@PocketBrain ... or am I thinking Mannheim Steamroller?
@PocketBrain A lot of people conflate TSO and Mannheim Steamroller, but they don't sound at all similar to me. Both focus on updated takes on classical Christmas music, but whereas TSO has a hard-rock sound with orchestral acompanyment (with its roots being the metal band Savatage), Mannheim Steamroller sounds more like one guy with a synthesizer (even when they do have a small orchestra).
While TSO's radio airplay is mostly instrumentals, the band has multiple lead vocalists and their (awesome) live show features more songs with singing than not. MS has no vocalists at all in the band, though they occasionally employee a guest singer like Johnny Mathis or Olivia Newton-John.
TSO is the best btw, I could listen to them all year! The only 2 Xmas songs I really can't stand are Santa Baby and Last Christmas....
Here's a real taste of Christmas.. RIP Robert Goulet. Grew up with this and it's still my favorite. No one has a voice like this.
@ComputerMD82 You can't mention Robert Goulet and Christmas without evoking memories of this:
Haven't got tired of it because I haven't heard that much of it.
That being said, here's a little song that has gotten way too much play in the stores.
My most abhorred used to be Santa Baby.
Last year it was usurped by Baby It's Cold Outside.
That stupid dog rendition and those idiot chipmunks.
If you want Xmas music you will never get sick of, try Manheim Steamroller.
You must be younger... when that stuff came out in the 80s you couldn't escape it, anywhere. And I'm still a little tired of it even though I don't hear it nearly as often anymore.
Not bad stuff, just never really need to hear their "Deck the Halls" ever again.
@tsfisch Yep, my mom would play that one Mannheim Steamroller album every year for the entire month. For yeaaaaaaars.
My sister mentioned it the other day and "Deck the Halls" has been in my head all week now.
Ba da da Ba da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Dana Carvey was thinking of Wonderful Christmas Time when he came up with his chopping broccoli sketch
When "Feliz Navidad" came out one of the stations played it incessantly for weeks then did it again the next Christmas, along with KVVU InstantNews which was the only TV station on the air at 5:00AM Christmas morning when all three of us kids bailed out of bed; that had the same effect as being given bologna sandwiches every day for months; I can't stand either to this day.
TSO, great. Mannheim Steamroller, awesome. The King Singers, wonderful. Winter on the Moors is memorable. Diana Krall, ahhh! Mitch Miller Holiday Sing Along was what we grew up with - the entire extended family, usually on Christmas Eve, singing along... I miss that more than I can say with us all so far apart now. Enya doing Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night)... The Piano Guys, and so many others.
Its not hard to ignore the inevitable crappy ones with so much wonderful music out there.
Step into Christmas-Elton John.
Taylor Swift
I usta work in a dept store, and there is this vibes and muted trumpet version of let it snow that is an earworm that pops up about this time every year.
baby it's cold outside...uuuggghhh
@earlyre Horrifically creepy? Check. Played in every damn grocery store since the beginning of the month? Check. We have ourselves a "winner," folks.
@earlyre What's a little rape culture among friends?
"do they know it's Christmas" is colonialist trash so imma go with that
I've pretty much managed to avoid the Christmas music this year, except for the bagpiper down the street waking me up on the weekends. At least, I think it's Christmas music.
Also, I caught a good chunk of this last Sunday. So, that was something.
As a former (radio) disc-jockey in the 80's, I vote for Matt Monroe and "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year."
Heard it WAAAAY to many times (along with non-Christmas song "My Baby Takes The Morning Train.")
I do not listen to "new" auto-tuned prefabricated pop-star renditions of most holiday music. I like Casting Crown's version of "I heard The Bells On Christmas Day" and I kind of like Annie Lennox's Christmas CD. However it has been described as "one of the most angry sounding Christmas albums" of all time. Watch the official version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" on Youtube (). This was pieced together from some very scant material and has a weird feeling about it!
Wow! I actually have a relevant song that very few meh-ers have probably heard: Carol of the Meh
@smyle I probably should have given a language warning on that, and it's too late to edit now. Sorry!
@smyle Awesome.
tbh can we admit that the best "Christmas" tunes are instrumentals or simple appropriations of other songs?
get you some greensleeves
For at least two of these, I have ways of making them tolerable.
For "Wonderful Christmastime", I mentally substitute this song
For "Christmas Shoes", I mentally substitute this one
@smyle Thank you for that.
The one Christmas song I never get tired of is Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton.
Santa Baby and Baby It's Cold Outside are my least favorite things ever.
This Christmas I am "enjoying" the sounds of goats:
All of them:
There is only one Christmas song I've heard that doesn't drive me crazy and make me want to harm things. Ironically it's a Christmas song about going crazy and harming things...
@devtony One of my favorites. I also like Jon Coulton's Chiron Beta Prime.
Bieber
For everyone who said something other than "Christmas Shoes":
Did your song have a (very bad) movie made out of it?
@dashcloud At least for me, it isn't a question of not loathing "Christmas Shoes" (I definitely do), but I am not sick of it because I haven't heard it a single time this year. As a matter of fact, it has probably been close to 10 years since I have heard it. I guess I have been extremely lucky to have just been exposed to radio stations and canned music services (e.g. Muzak) that recognize how hated it is. (I know I have just doomed myself to hearing it a half dozen times of the next few days)
If it helps:
@DrWorm Makes perfect sense.
@DrWorm Now I almost want to hear it. Thanks!
@The_Baron Lmao. My half-asleep kitties bolted upright all bug-eyed and spent the whole song trying to figure out where the new one was. Including checking every window. They are still confused
I put together playlists on USBs and play only that. Nothing else is safe. Oh wait, the entire Beatles music catalog is now streaming. That's acceptable.
Anything with "holly" in it.